The matter of migrating users, files, access rights, and services is important as we transition to Linux. We consider both NSS and POSIX files systems on Linux. The most sensitive migration step is moving eDirectory contents from one server to another to preserve all identities. This two day course is designed to address each of these areas in detail, with many practical experiments.

Attendees will be given NetWare 6.5 SP8 and OES2 SP1 Linux servers running in VMware. The experiments will explore a variety of methods of migrating services and files, concentrating on the OES2 Linux tools and including rsync, JRBUtilities, Novell's SCMT utility.

By the end of the course delegates will have completed a migration of eDirectory contents, files, trustee rights, and most major OES2 utilities. They will have a good understanding of the strengths and weakness of each file and trustee migration method.